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Spectator Australia TV: Melbourne in lockdown – here we go again
This week on Spectator Australia TV: Melbourne in Lockdown — Here We Go Again. IPA rising star Cian Hussey on…
What would Menzies make of the modern Liberal Party?
Labor’s 20 per cent result in last weekend’s Hunter by-election is a warning to both the state and federal party,…
In the bleak midwinter
As autumn fades and the final leaves fall, the bitter winds of winter loom. Cold hearts of powerful people begin…
How the national curriculum abolishes Australian citizenship
The draft national curriculum for schools is seeking to teach the next generation of Australians a progressive and utopian view of…
Comment is free, but facts are sacred
The machine of left-wing activism has gone into a panic with a decade of propaganda starting to unravel. Public patience…
ScoMo goes troppo
Many Spectator Australia readers will recall the way Paul Keating taunted John Hewson in the lead up to the 1993…
Incompetence abounds in Victoria – but I feel fully reassured
Having spent another 40 minutes of my life this morning — time I won’t get back — listening to senior…
It’s time to give up sex. Thanks feminism
Earlier this week, New South Wales unveiled huge changes to the definition of consent. The new affirmative consent model could…
Jacqui Lambie said what?
Imagine the furore if a Coalition parliamentarian told a Qantas staff member “your CEO is a poof”. Imagine the fury…
It’s bad enough in Danandrewstan without lockdown
When Victorian Treasurer, Tim Pallas delivered his budget last week, he spoke of a Victoria defined by relief and joy.…
Sorry Labor, but the gig economy is alive and well
There’s a lot of excitement coming from the union movement and the usual suspects among the commentariat over the recent ‘Deliveroo’ decision.…
The risk to ScoMo from Melbourne’s latest Covid flap
There are two very clear takeouts from Melbourne’s latest coronavirus crisis. The first is that Acting Premier James Merlino is…
Watch out for the mainstreaming of anti-Semitism.
While the skies across Israel are silent once again as a ceasefire holds, for over a week Israelis’ have been…
All this for one death all year?
Greater Melbourne has been hit again. Not so much this time by WuFlu, but more by heavy-handed officialdom and a…
Once were a democracy
There is no doubt New Zealand’s democracy is now under aggressive attack by the small minority of those of part-Maori…
How to really help the Palestinians
Facts no longer matter. If more Palestinians are being killed than Israelis then you need to help the Palestinians –…
The People’s Princess and the poobahs of public broadcasting
Goodbye England’s rose May you ever grow in our hearts You were the grace that placed itself where lives were torn…
The real miracle of Upper Hunter
“A Gladys Miracle”, the Sunday papers shouted. The miracle narrative has left the station. We will soon, no doubt, be adding “historic” and,…
Hello lockdown, my old friend
As of 6.00 pm this evening groups of five people in Greater Melbourne must wear masks outdoors while within 30…
Superannuation: taxed to death
The superannuation guarantee requirement is set to increase from 9.5 per cent of a worker’s income to 10 per cent…
BMI, beetles, and beauty: what the body positivity movement gets right and wrong
Recently, I read two books of the same name but with very different content. The first was Beauty by Bri…
Winning the war on woke in the armed forces
The American military is increasingly facing future armed with the attitude “If we’re going to lose a major war, at least…
What does the future hold for Malcolm Turnbull?
The Spectator Australia has been spelling out a simple truth for many years now: Malcolm Turnbull simply isn’t very good…
Just what does Scott Morrison stand for?
The term ‘liberal’ is confusing. In the United States it means a progressive, in Europe more of a classical liberal,…
Do women really want longer working hours?
Parents of small children are all too familiar with the competing demands of family, child care and work. Each family…
